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[[Coalition (Australia)|coalition]] partner, the [[National Party of Australia]], led by [[Charles Blunt]], despite losing the nationwide popular and [[two-party-preferred vote]]. The result saw the re-election of the Hawke government for a fourth successive term.
 
It was the first and, to date, only time the Labor party won four consecutive elections. {{As of|2023}} it is the most recent federal election in which leaders of both the largest parties represented divisions outside [[New South Wales]], the last to have both major party leaders from the same city other than [[Sydney|(Sydney)]], the last to have a rematch just [[1984 Australian federal election|rematch]] six years earlier]] and until [[2001 Australian federal election|2001]], thus was the last for the 20th century, which unlike 13 years earlier in [[1977 Australian federal election|(1977]] when it's the last rematch with the same major party leaders inappeared consecutiveconsecutively after the previous federal elections,election in the 20th century) just [[1975 Australian federal election|2 years earlier]], and the last to have both major party leaders born prior to [[World War II]] .
 
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